Fri. 10/11/13 9:00am
Uncle Michael:
Nice gif. I had a cocker spaniel that could do that.

Fri. 10/11/13 9:00am
listener james from westwood:
must duck out briefly before joining for the full 6-hour suite; banking and postal duties for a temporarily hospitalized parent! (part of it's mailing a pledge to gtds!)

Fri. 10/11/13 9:00am
Alex In Illinois:
I always preferred Curly over Shemp, but I did not think there was anything wrong with Shemp fans. They both worked well with that tall blond actress,

Fri. 10/11/13 9:01am
still b/p:
That there's the last part of the pig still made in America. The rest has been outsourced.

Fri. 10/11/13 9:03am
listener james from westwood:
aaah, these guys gave me gentle shit over my curly allegiance over the course of the game. i soaked it up and avenged my cue-ball idol by taking their money. (okay, all four bucks of it; it was literally a nickel-dime game)

Fri. 10/11/13 9:05am
duke:
Curly and Shemp, but no fans of Joe Besser or Curly Joe?

Fri. 10/11/13 9:07am
jk:
Morning Doug!
Sorry about your pirates, I was hoping for a pirates-red sox series

Fri. 10/11/13 9:09am
hyde:
well, it'd be worse if the action gif was of laws being made i guess

Fri. 10/11/13 9:10am
dc pat:
good GOD. That gif is freakin me out. Looks like some kind of western PA industry...

Fri. 10/11/13 9:11am
Doug Schulkind:
Hey hey jk,
The mood here in Pizzaburgh is largely gratitude mixed with a tinge of disappointment. It will be interesting to see if the Steel City can handle the psychic shift of losing its doormat status, like Bostonians had to in 2005. That said, I'm hope the Dodgers squish the Cardinals into dust (and then lose to the Bosox.)

@dc pat
No, this a live shot of the U.S. House of Representatives Parliamentarian.

Fri. 10/11/13 9:14am
jill:
looks like the penguins are the only hope of da burgh. 'Morning Doug etal.

Fri. 10/11/13 9:15am
still b/p:
A different Sardinian team...but one of my favorite perfomance moments was seeing the Tenores di Bitti years ago singing a song like this while in a tight revolving huddle with their four heads touching together.

Fri. 10/11/13 9:20am
Doug Schulkind:
GIVE THE DRUMMER RADIO PLEDGE REQUEST...
Dear people with ears and hearts, pledge take a minute and shuffle over to the pledge box atop the playlist and drop $10 or $20 in the till for WFMU. It would mean a lot to me and everyone at the station/stream. Thanks!

Fri. 10/11/13 9:44am
hyde:
link of note: an old link at Lonesome Lefty's with that Molly O'Day & the Cumberland Folks tune (and many more!) is still live scratchyattic.blogspot.com...

Fri. 10/11/13 9:44am
Alex In Illinois:
Is that Pee Wee King on the accordion with those Swingtime Cowgirls?

Fri. 10/11/13 9:46am
Doug Schulkind:
@Alex
I had a devil of a time getting any info online about Evelyn and her herd. (Read: I got nothin')

@hyde
Thanks for sharing that!

Fri. 10/11/13 9:47am
hyde:
@Doug well, back atcha. thanks for playing the tune so I'd go trawling for it!

Fri. 10/11/13 9:49am
Alex In Illinois:
I think I missed something in that Maggie Sue Wimberley number. It sounded like it had a happy beginning, middle and ending. I did not hear anything or anyone get lost in it.

Fri. 10/11/13 9:51am
Doug Schulkind:
What you been smokin', Alex? There are no "happy" country songs.

Fri. 10/11/13 11:11am
KevinfromBayRidge:
Hello Doug & all Drummersomes ( or some drummeralls?). Crazy at work today but I'm enjoying the show between cluster-Fs!

Fri. 10/11/13 11:13am
Doug Schulkind:
This tune from Thomas Mapfumo was serious business. He is mocking Ian Smith and the ruling white Rhodesian power struggle. Mapfumo would be jailed. The gov't would fly over the bush blaring Mapfumo's music trying to convince the rebels that the musician was supporting the whites. Their ham-fisted endeavor failed miserably. of course.

Fri. 10/11/13 11:14am
Brian in UK:
Funny, I was talking to someone at work today who hailed from Zimbabwe and we got to talking about Thomas.

Fri. 10/11/13 11:14am
trs:
Hey - what's with all the naming and labeling of listeners per show?? It's marketing-technique for promoting affiliation, no?

Fri. 10/11/13 11:17am
Brian in UK:
I think Blegvad and the world is simpler.

Fri. 10/11/13 11:18am
Doug Schulkind:
@trs
No segregation is occuring. Anyone who wants can "register" (see up top) and this will let you comment without having to do that stupid little math problem to prove you are a human. Once you are registered, you can choose your own avatar to go along with whatever name you chosen to comment under.

Fri. 10/11/13 11:19am
Brian in UK:
Hello ndbob. Are you on the move to warmer climes?

Fri. 10/11/13 11:22am
ndbob:
I'm leaving on Monday ... packing going pretty well.. was out eating with my breakfast group.. usually I skip Fridays, but since this is my last one I went

Fri. 10/11/13 11:23am
Doug Schulkind:
@trs
WFMU created a framework for a community of listeners/commentors called "the WFMU Friendship Society." Absolutely everyone is welcome to join. (And welcome not to, of course.) "Membership" allows certain levels of interactivity. For instance, you can contact other "members" directly if you like. There are other features, too. Mostly, it's a way to semi-privatize the commenting feature on the playlists to help keep the discussion from swirling down into the typical mess that befouls so many other public comment boards.

NDBob, are you leaving town for good, or just moving to your winter home in the Caymans?

Fri. 10/11/13 11:26am
listener james from westwood:
commenting system has been an unwavering ascent in ease and utility since it launched, thanks to the mighty kenzo. fmu's playlists are one of the very few places where i not only read the comments, but post. i feel welcome and safe here.

Fri. 10/11/13 11:27am
trs:
No. Not registration to comment. It's the labeling of listeners. eg 'trsties' if, say, I had a show named trs or something. It's intended to promote affiliation and it does the opposite to me.

I'm freaking exhausted of being tracked and labeled. Not to mention the mislabeling.

Fri. 10/11/13 11:27am
listener james from westwood:
i can count on 1 hand the number of ban-worthy folks who have dropped in, and they tend to self-select for extinction.
and the education! so many things to learn from fmu's dedicated, diverse listeners and other djs!!

Fri. 10/11/13 11:28am
ndbob:
@Carmichael for good - I'm moving to Bloomington, Indiana - not quite the tropics, but compared to North Dakota it is - really looking forward to it

Fri. 10/11/13 11:30am
Brian in UK:
I was a bit doubtful of signing up, bit part of the Groucho skool of clubs. Since doing so I have contacted or been contacted by other listeners. You can decide to accept an invitation to talk or not. If you do the communication can be more relaxed in a one to one way. I have also swapped music & photographs with people in other countries. It is an earthshrinker.
The number of knob-heads is minimal and soon get short shrift.

Fri. 10/11/13 11:30am
listener james from westwood:
trs, i see many of the same fine folks commenting on numerous fmu shows' playlists. not sure what you mean by folks being labeled. and if some folks fo hyper-identify with one show, they're still supporting the mothership by listening. doesn't take anything away from me. there are many, many wfmus even as there is only one fmu.

Fri. 10/11/13 11:31am
Carmichael:
I don't believe I've ever been *tracked*, since I've never received any spam e-mails or anything else related to marketing. This isn't like Facebook; the posts and meta data go nowhere else in cyberland. I think it's mainly to keep the trolls off of the board. There was a lot of that stuff happening previously. Now it's pretty much gone completely.

Fri. 10/11/13 11:31am
Doug Schulkind:
@trs
I am confused. Do you feel that such "tracking" or "labeling" is taking place here? Or that anything at all is being "promoted"? Because none of that, whatever you mean by it, is happening. WFMU has no interest in any of that crap. In fact, it exists to be an alternative to and a sanctuary from that insidious commodification of humanity.

Fri. 10/11/13 11:31am
trs:
Not to make a big stink about it. I just wanted to express the fact that it all has an opposite effect on me.

Fri. 10/11/13 11:32am
Doug Schulkind:
@trs
All that being said, I think you are absolutely right to be skeptical.

Fri. 10/11/13 11:33am
Jeff:
Hey, Doug - did you happen to see my email of a few minutes ago?

Fri. 10/11/13 11:34am
still b/p:
I don't think I understand the complaint. I don't mean I disagree, I mean really don't quite understand what the "it" is --- the details and meaning of it. But I'm curious. You mean the casual tossing around of "drummies" or such terms by commenters or DJs...? Is there some other more official auto-association going on in the system?

Fri. 10/11/13 11:34am
duke:
There's no requirement to have a name to comment. If you leave the name blank, you show up as ?. (possibly confused with the leader of the Mysterions) I echo LJFW. My experience has been positive and I hate social networks like Facebook. Some djs are more active commentators and others never respond to comments. Some web listeners never comment, some are prolific. We're all here for the music anyway.

Fri. 10/11/13 11:35am
Brian in UK:
Despite being Freeform to the hilt the audience is possibly non politically conservative. I would not be writing if I was not 100% confident in the infrastructure and integrity of this radio station.

Fri. 10/11/13 11:35am
Doug Schulkind:
@Jeff
I am playing an MP3 on Traktor right now and Traktor is not clipping. Neither are the meters on Nicecast.

Fri. 10/11/13 11:36am
Uncle Michael:
@trs: Could you amplify on your "trsties" point? You mean like when I greet other Give the Drummer Radio listeners as "drumheads?"

Fri. 10/11/13 11:36am
listener james from westwood:
duke, that's where fmu so wonderfully differs: no sign-in to comment. lots of places force you to use yr FB login for every damn thing. if i want that kind of spot-check, i'll go to my doc, turn my head, and cough.

Fri. 10/11/13 11:36am
Doug Schulkind:
@Jeff
I just dialed down a bit the levels on my MBox soundcard. Any better?

Fri. 10/11/13 11:39am
Brian in UK:
I think duke summed it up.
How mad can a radio station be when it does not pay the DJs.

Fri. 10/11/13 11:39am
Carmichael:
Forgot to make the daily change to my avatar!

Fri. 10/11/13 11:44am
KevinfromBayRidge:
Alluding to Brian's comment(1130), I think all of us here have gotten past the Groucho "club" thang. O, the power of FMU!

Fri. 10/11/13 11:45am
Uncle Michael:
@trs: I hope it's always clear that such terms of association are entirely left to the devices of those uttering them and in no way represent any official imprimatur.

Fri. 10/11/13 11:46am
trs:
I go to a restaurant and I'm part of a club, now.

It's an absurd practice and has the opposite effect of promoting affliation.

Fri. 10/11/13 11:48am
Doug Schulkind:
Thank you for what you did, Carmichael!

Fri. 10/11/13 11:48am
Uncle Michael:
I suppose that ensuring that this never feels like any kind collective experience could be undermined by reading or participating in the comments. Not engaging with the comments is a pretty good way of maintaining the purity of the radio experience. *shrug*

Fri. 10/11/13 11:49am
Carmichael:
@trs: You are now inside of the circle of trust. We'll all be over later this evening for charades and champagne.

Fri. 10/11/13 11:49am
Carmichael:
Any time, Dougie. And the other DJs are not so *silent* about it, btw.

Fri. 10/11/13 11:50am
Brian in UK:
I cannot wait for this second puberty of mine to wear off.

Great show Doug.
Speak for yourself Carmichael. I gotta wash someones hair. Aint decided who yet.

Fri. 10/11/13 11:51am
duke:
Once the FMU brain implant is perfected you won't even have to comment. You can just think "This tune sucks." and it will be instantly transmitted to FMU world headquarters.

Fri. 10/11/13 11:51am
Carmichael:
Either one of our Spencers would enjoy a nice scrub'n'rub.

Fri. 10/11/13 11:51am
Doug Schulkind:
The reality is that the overwhelming majority of listeners never comment. Joining in the conversation is totally voluntary. Personally, I adore the interaction. It helps personalize the experience from my end. But no one is compelled to contribute in the comments.

And as someone said earlier, you can always comments without giving a name, if that's preferable.

It is very HARD to remain silent, Carmichael. I wanna shout into the winds.

Fri. 10/11/13 11:53am
Doug Schulkind:
GIVE THE DRUMMER RADIO PROGRAMMING ALERT...
Uncle Michael is up next with Hinky Dinky Time. Keep the chattermatizing going over on his playlist page here: wfmu.org...

Fri. 10/11/13 11:54am
Carmichael:
Good luck in Indiana, Bob. Do you have a new job?

Fri. 10/11/13 11:57am
ndbob:
nope - or one currently - though I hope to find one there - lotsof reasons to move - although there are many great things about North Dakota - I'd like a more intellectually stimulating place - one not so cold - and where advanced medical care is readily available if needed

Fri. 10/11/13 12:00pm
Alex In Illinois:
Does that pledge meter count pledges form last week made during this show?

Fri. 10/11/13 12:01pm
still b/p:
I downloaded the Stax singles collection a few years ago, but only got around to putting the first few dozen tracks onto CD. Do tracks like the Shack number await me in the remainder?